- Patty Courtright, “Brief Encounter Leads to 100 Years of Women at Carolina,” UNC News Services, October 10, 1997, https://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct97/100.html (site discontinued). UNC’s move toward high percentages of female students began not long after the passing and implementation of Title IX initiatives in 1972 for equal access to education. In 1978, female students surpassed 50 percent for the first time in UNC’s history; see Sara Salinas, “The Road to a 60 Percent Female Campus,” Daily Tar Heel, April 12, 2016, https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/04/the-road-to-a-60-percent-female-campus.
- McKissick v. Carmichael, 187 F.2d 949 (4th. Cir. 1951), cert. denied, 341 U.S. 951 (1951); counsel for the plaintiffs were Thurgood Marshall and Robert Carter, with Conrad Pearson of Durham, North Carolina, on the brief. See also Charles Daye, “African-American and Other Minority Students and Alumni,” North Carolina Law Review 73, no. 2 (1995): 675. L. J. Toler, “Carolina to Celebrate 50 Years of African-American Students,” UNC News Services, November 27, 2001, http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov01/bsm112601.htm (site discontinued).
- Warren Ashby, Frank Porter Graham: A Southern Liberal (Winston-Salem, NC: Blair Publishing, 1980), 94, 108, 136–139; James Leloudis, foreword to The State of the University, 2000–2008: Major Addresses by UNC Chancellor James Moeser, by James Moeser (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, distributed for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for the Arts and Humanities, 2018), 30; and Ashby, Frank Porter Graham, 94, 108, 136–139.
- William D. Snider, Light on the Hill: A History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 7, 10, 11, 23; William S. Powell, North Carolina Through Four Centuries (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989), 47–48.
- NC Const., art. IX, § 9, https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Constitution/NCConstitution.html; Snider, Light on the Hill, 2; and Ashby, Frank Porter Graham, 94, 108, 136–139.
- Ashby, Frank Porter Graham, 158–161; Moeser, The State of the University, 40; and Snider, Light on the Hill, 270–280, 329.
- Ashby, Frank Porter Graham, 90–94; Snider, Light on the Hill, 179–180, 188; Generation of Change: William Friday, Terry Sanford, and North Carolina’s “Greatest Generation” 1920s–1972, directed by Steve Channing, aired January 8, 2015, on UNC-TV; and William C. Friday, in discussion with the author, October 2004.
- Powell, North Carolina Through Four Centuries, 465; Snider, Light on the Hill, 189–199, 203–205.
- Rob Christensen, “Nichol is Only the Latest Academic Freedom Case,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), February 21, 2015, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/rob-christensen/article11302841.html.
- Ashby, Frank Porter Graham, 127, 140; Snider, Light on the Hill, 190–192.
- Gene Nichol, “Bill Aycock and the North Carolina Speaker Ban Law,” North Carolina Law Review 79, no. 6 (September 2001): 1725, 1728–1729. See also “William B. Aycock,” UNC General Alumni Association, accessed December 10, 2018, http://alumni.unc.edu/william-b-aycock-1957-1964. Nichol, “Bill Aycock,” 1725, 1736–1737.
- See Mickey Blackwell, “Aycock Looses Searing Blast at Speaker Gag Law,” Daily Tar Heel, November 10, 1963. Nichol, “Bill Aycock,” 1733–1736, 1735.
- Moeser, The State of the University, 22–24, 23.
- Snider, Light on The Hill, 255.
- Zoë Carpenter, “How a Right-Wing Political Machine is Dismantling Higher Education in North Carolina,” The Nation, June 8, 2015, https://www.thenation.com/article/how-right-wing-political-machine-dismantling-higher-education-north-carolina/. See also Blake Weaver, “BOG Approves Business School Tuition Increases, Other School Fees,” Daily Tar Heel, March 27, 2018, https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/03/unc-system-fees-bog-print-0327.
- Jane Stancill, “Extra Fee Proposed for UNC Business Majors as ‘a Very Last Resort,'” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), January 25, 2018, http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article196725009.html. See also Hannah Lang, “Incoming Kenan-Flagler Students To Experience Tuition Increase,” April 10, 2018, Daily Tar Heel, http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/04/bschool-0411 (quoting Anna Millar, co-director of undergraduate business school program).
- Bryan Anderson, “NC Residents Are Within 150 Miles of $500 Tuition,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), accessed December 10, 2018, http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article88692132.html.
- “Best Values in Colleges,” Kiplinger Report, December 2017, http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-find-best-colleges-value-rankings/end_page.php?school=9313.
- John Charles Boger, “A Statement from Dean Boger: UNC Centers and University Values,” University of North Carolina School of Law, February 18, 2015, http://www.law.unc.edu/news/2015/02/18/a-statement-from-dean-boger-unc-centers-/; Scott Jaschik, “Who Is Being Political?,” Inside Higher Ed, February 19, 2015, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/19/unc-board-panel-wants-shut-down-center-poverty-led-faculty-member-who-criticizes.
- Stancill, “Supporters Rallying Behind UNC’s Civil Rights Center,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), May 10, 2017, http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article149682089.html#storylink=cpy; Stancill, “UNC Board Bans Legal Action at Civil Rights Center,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), September 8, 2017, http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article171979707.html.
- “UNC School of Law Receives a $1.53 Million Gift for New Entrepreneurship Program,” University of North Carolina School of Law, June 18, 2018, http://www.law.unc.edu/news/2018/06/18/153-million-gift-for-entrepreneurship-program; Stancill, “Legislature’s Push For Environmental Policy Causes Unease at UNC,” Charlotte Observer, August 20, 2016, www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article96951662.html; Rick Seltzer, “When Lawmakers Set Up a Policy Research Center,” Inside Higher Ed, August 15, 2016, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/08/15/legislature-mandated-environmental-policy-center-ruffles-feathers-unc; and Lisa Sorg, “Monday Surprise: Jeffrey Warren Named Research Director of NC Policy Collaboratory,” Progressive Pulse, NC Policy Watch, March 6, 2017, http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2017/03/06/monday-surprise-jeffrey-warren-named-research-director-nc-policy-collaboratory/.
- See, generally, Nichol, “Lessons on Political Speech, Academic Freedom, and University Governance from the New North Carolina,” First Amendment Law Review 16 (2018): 39; Ned Barnett, “The World According to Rucho,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), February 28, 2015, https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/ned-barnett/article11628902.html.
- Nichol, “Lessons on Political Speech,” 63, 64.
- Ibid., 57. See also Leah Moore, “Former UNC Faculty, Staff Explain Reasoning For Taking Offers at Duke,” Daily Tar Heel, March 9, 2017, https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2017/03/unc-has-a-net-faculty-gain-despite-offers-faculty-cannot-refuse.
- Stancill, “A UNC Course That Dealt With Athletics Scandal Is Canceled. Now Some Want To Know Why,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), June 2, 2017, http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article154031604.html; Michael Powell, “North Carolina’s Dominance Fails to Cover Cheating’s Stain,” New York Times, March 31, 2017, https://nytimes.com/2017/03/31/sports/ncaabasketball/north-carolina-final-four-cheating-fake-classes.html.
- Andrew Carter, “No Significant Penalties for UNC in NCAA’s Long-Awaited Report on Academic Scandals,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), October 13, 2017; Dan Barkin, “UNC’s Statements to the NCAA Didn’t ‘Pass the Smell Test,’ Accreditor Said,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), November 22, 2017, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/unc-scandal/article186019288.html; Dan Kane, “UNC Defended Classes to the NCAA. Now the Accreditor Has Questions,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), November 9, 2017, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/unc-scandal/article183717756.html; and Brian Murphy, “Former NBA Star Calls UNC Case ‘Most Disappointing Thing’ He’s Seen in Sports,” News & Observer, May 10, 2018, https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/article210739484.html.
- Vimal Patel, “UNC’s Chancellor Is a Consensus Builder. Silent Sam Is Her Greatest Test,” Chronicle of Higher Education, September 25, 2018, https://www.chronicle.com/article/UNC-s-Chancellor-Is-a/244629; Jordyn Williams, “Folt Claims 70 Percent of N.C. Residents Want Silent Sam Back in McCorkle Place,” Daily Tar Heel, September 24, 2018, https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/09/faculty-executive-committee-0924-silent-sam-unc; Patel, “unc‘s Chancellor Is a Consensus Builder”; and Judith Wegner, “Chancellor Folt Needs to Display Better Leadership,” Daily Tar Heel, September 7, 2018, 3.
- “Our View: A Bad Solution for Silent Sam,” Winston-Salem Journal, December 8, 2018, https://www.journalnow.com/opinion/editorials/our-view-a-bad-solution-for-silent-sam/article_67537f2c-732e-5f8d-b752-1875a11a7933.html; Stancill, “Protesters March, Call for Strike of UNC Professors and Teaching Assistants,” December 3, 2018, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article222586130.html; “Our View,” Winston-Salem Journal; and Stancill and Tammy Grubb, “‘Back to the Drawing Board’—UNC Board Rejects Latest Silent Sam Plan. New Panel Launched,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), December 14, 2018, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article223096755.html.
- Stancill, Grubb, and Julia Wall, “Silent Sam Pedestal Removed After Order From UNC Chancellor Carol Folt, Who Is Stepping Down,” January 14, 2019, News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), January 14, 2019, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article224526250.html; Stancill and Carli Brosseau, “UNC Board Tells Chancellor Folt to Leave Her Job in 2 Weeks—Earlier Than Expected,” January 15, 2019, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article224561590.html.
- Wayne Urban, review of The New Southern University: Academic Freedom and Liberalism at UNC, by Charles J. Holden, H-NC, May 2013, https://networks.h-net.org/node/8909/reviews/14175/urban-holden-new-southern-university-academic-freedom-and-liberalism.
- William Brantley Aycock, Speeches and Statements of William Brantley Aycock (1957–1964) (Chapel Hill, NC: Colonial Press, 1989), 191, quoted in Nichol, “Bill Aycock,” 1736.
